A companion to Herman Melville / edited by Wyn Kelley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kelley, Wyn.

Series:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; v.41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature.

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Criticism and interpretation.

Melville, Herman.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (616 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, Mass., Oxford : Blackwell, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville's works in the twenty-first century. Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to MelvilleConsiders Melville in a global context, and looks at the impact of global economies and technologies on the way people read MelvilleTakes account of the latest and most sophisticated scholarship, including postcolonial and feminist perspectivesLocates Melville in his cultural milieu, revising our views of his politi

Contents:

A Companion to Herman Melville; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Texts and Abbreviations; Preface; Part I Travels; 1 A Traveling Life; 2 Cosmopolitanism and Traveling Culture; 3 Melville's World Readers; 4 Global Melville; Part II Geographies; 5 Science and the Earth; 6 Ships, Whaling, and the Sea; 7 Pacific Paradises; 8 Atlantic Trade; 9 Ancient Lands; Part III Nations; 10 Democracy and its Discontents; 11 Urbanization, Class Struggle, and Reform; 12 Wicked Books: Melville and Religion

13 Pierre's Bad Associations: Public Life in the Institutional Nation14 Melville, Slavery, and the American Dilemma; 15 Gender and Sexuality; Part IV Libraries; 16 The Legacy of Britain; 17 Romantic Philosophy, Transcendentalism, and Nature; 18 Literature of Exploration and the Sea; 19 Death and Literature: Melville and the Epitaph; 20 The Company of Women Authors; 21 Hawthorne and Race; 22 ''Unlike Things Must Meet and Mate'': Melville and the Visual Arts; Part V Texts; 23 The Motive for Metaphor: Typee, Omoo, and Mardi; 24 Artist at Work: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, and Pierre

25 The Language of Moby-Dick: ''Read It If You Can''26 Threading the Labyrinth: Moby-Dick as Hybrid Epic; 27 The Female Subject in Pierre and The Piazza Tales; 28 Narrative Shock in ''Bartleby, the Scrivener,'' ''The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,'' and ''Benito Cereno''; 29 Fluid Identity in Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man; 30 How Clarel Works; 31 Melville the Realist Poet; 32 Melville's Transhistorical Voice: Billy Budd, Sailor and the Fragmentation of Forms; Part VI Meanings; 33 The Melville Revival; 34 Creating Icons: Melville in Visual Media and Popular Culture

35 The Melville TextIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9786610743599

9781119117902

1119117909

9781782686934

1782686932

9781280743597

128074359X

9781405164313

140516431X

9780470996782

0470996781

9781405171946

1405171944

OCLC:

86069237